Cilla & Donnie

Donnie took it hard, cause soon as we quit Port he'd hit his cabin. I gave him as much time as I felt right, then strolled.

He was drinking. Sitting there, drinking, like it was a career. I found a nearly clean glass, poured a few fingers, waited.

"He told me, Gye died a hero. Told me he was Gye and he'd take his brother's place. Like a replacement part. Like..." Donnie took another drink. "If that's how they see themselves...how can I..."

"How did Gye die?" I asked.

"He got away in the Viper, got to regale them with his adventures. Then went out on one of their ships, Dalmar attacked, ship exploded."

Donnie took another drink, starts to rheumanate, not about then; not aboutthat Gye, our Gye, but this one.

Eugenics

Donnie is looking at me, then to the door, seeing something...

"I'm coming up the gangplank..." he muses in that two breaths from tears voice; ".. see this one. This Gye, coming towards me. I'm grinning, right? Think it's Gye, but it's not Gye. And he, this one, he introduces himself as Gye. As if he can walk in and take his brother's place."

Another swallow.

"It's like some fem walking up to me saying, I'll take Cilla's place, like you aren't real, complete, alive, whatever, I don't know...do you know? Do you know what I mean, Cilla?"

I know what he means. Maybe I wouldn't have caught it if I hadn't known Gye, our Gye. But I have. I have and I know Gennies think of themselves as clones of the other. Or whatever.

"I knew he was dead. If he wasn't he'd of contacted me." Donnie decides.

"How close you get to him?" I asked.

"I don't know. But I felt that...I don't know what I felt. I don't know what I feel."

I know what he feels. Grief. Mourning. Loss. Our Gye was as close to me as this one. Meaning, wide berth. But Donnie tried to make friends. Maybe he had.

We all lose people in life. But I think, when you lose someone who has made you his only friend, it's more painful.

The Light comes on

There wasn't much I could say or do, so I finished my drink and left Donnie. Left him and made it my duty to warn the crew not to pick the scab. I don't think I really had to, outside of Guthrie the others caught the currents.

I double avoided Gye.This Gye.

Let a day roll, take my lie down, my fun up, then back into my seat. I felt easy as I piloted towards Savorn. After all, as most pirates were Sagir and as the MileLong ship is coming from Sagir with Sagir crap, they shouldn't attack it.

When that hit my brain, it answered every question I ever had, starting with the day Madame Rhyse demanded we take a Eugenic on the Presidium.

She'd put Gye here for the purpose of annoying Dalmar. Hoping they'd attack our ship. Knowing when they did she'd have the opportunity to link with Sagir.

Once she linked with Sagir, that was the end of Piracy. Sure, send a nice big war boat to play security, but know no one was going to attack. Wny? Why woulda pirate ship attack a Pirate Ship?

It wasn't a gift to Sagir, it was buying protection for Hawking. I bet, if I got Ian to hack into Hawking, their usual losses due to Piracy, and the Insurance premiums they had to pay, was more in one year than the Invictus cost.

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